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Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the Making of America
. Ed(S): Seefeldt, Douglas; Hantman, Jeffrey L.; Onuf, Peter S.
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paperback. An obscure undertaking in its time, the Lewis and Clark expedition grew in the American imagination, acquiring an almost mythic stature. This book presents an examination of the explorers' world and the complicated ways in which it relates to ours. It contains essays that look at the global geopolitics that provided the context for the expedition. Editor(s): Seefeldt, Douglas; Hantman, Jeffrey L.; Onuf, Peter S. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
An obscure undertaking in its own time, the Lewis and Clark expedition has grown in the American imagination, acquiring an almost mythic stature. Arriving as the country commemorates the expedition's bicentennial, ""Across the Continent"" is not an exercise in demythologizing; rather, it is an examination of the explorers' world and the complicated ways in which it relates to our own. The essays collected here look at the global geopolitics that provided the context for the expedition - and at the interest in science, shared by Jefferson, that not only grew from the expedition but, to an extent, justified its undertaking. ... Read more
An obscure undertaking in its own time, the Lewis and Clark expedition has grown in the American imagination, acquiring an almost mythic stature. Arriving as the country commemorates the expedition's bicentennial, ""Across the Continent"" is not an exercise in demythologizing; rather, it is an examination of the explorers' world and the complicated ways in which it relates to our own. The essays collected here look at the global geopolitics that provided the context for the expedition - and at the interest in science, shared by Jefferson, that not only grew from the expedition but, to an extent, justified its undertaking. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813925950
SKU
V9780813925950
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About . Ed(S): Seefeldt, Douglas; Hantman, Jeffrey L.; Onuf, Peter S.
Douglas Seefeldt, Lecturer in History at the University of Virginia, is the Director of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Project. Jeffrey L. Hantman is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Archaeology Program at the University of Virginia. Peter S. Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia, is the author of Jefferson's Empire: ... Read more
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